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Hey I love seeing the M's take it to the Yanks and taking the series - I hope this team can do what the A's did last year and make a run for the play-offs
But I also remember when the M's of the early 80's led by Bruce Bochte and Tom Paciorek would take a couple games from the Yanks and the entire fan base would act like we just won the world series. But at the end of the day those Yanks were contenders and those M's were still a sub .500 club. (of course back then if you had 10K fans in the Kingdome for a game that was considered a large crowd)
As I detailed in the post the way the roster is currently constructed we have some serious headwinds to overcome: at any one time our lineup consists of 4 hitters that to say the least are not good.
And yes we have some potentially good up and coming hitters i.e. Saunders & Seager, its not like they are monsters such that pitcher fear pitching to them. They are just your prototypical major league players and as fans we want them to be more. I'd say currently our only hitter that can truly inspire fear would be Morse, and that is a good thing.
I'm hoping Smoak's new slo-mo training technique turns his career around, I hope Ackley second rework of his swing this year will allow him to hit the ball the way the talent evaluators expected he would when he came into the league and I hope Montero lives up the hype when we traded for him and I hope Ryan or Andino can hit the ball.
I hope the M's win a world series, but that's a lot of hoping.
In the Navy you can paint over rust and the ship will look good for a couple of days, or you can do it right chip the rust away/prime/paint and the ship will look good for a month or so until the salt water does it's thing A few wins for the M's can hide the rust, but until the roster as a whole begins to perform at big league levels there will be more bumps in the road ahead.
Go M's, Beat Cleveland